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Swap coffee and energy drinks. Energy drinks are def the most braindead of the bunch—I know, I used to buy them.
Also where is the “100mg adderall” option?
Considering most people consume coffee, I think you should reconsider
But Energy drinks are way worse. They’re basically only sugar (at least most of the big ones).
I like my C4’s for pre-workout, but they’ve got some kind of artificial sweetener I’m assuming
I really did try to use pre workout powder and I hated it because it’s too sweet at that time of the morning.
Cup of black coffee is the best pre workout. If you really want some energy, smash a banana too.
The last one is plain cheating
I get 8 hours of sleep almost every night. I can tell you I don’t feel well rested any day
I get between 7-12h a day. I still don’t feel restet.
Consistency and quality of sleep are also important factors, but so is your diet and the times you eat.
Feeling well rested after a night of sleep requires much more than “8 hours sleep”.
I sometimes have the feeling that I’m only getting REM sleep.
Of cause that can’t be true, but I don’t think it’s thaaaat far off.
Just curious, what makes you think you’re only getting REM?
Speaking as someone dxed with narcolepsy, a sleep disorder where you get a disproportionate amount of REM. There are a lot of conditions–sleep disorders and otherwise–that can cause excessive sleeping and daytime fatigue.
Not to say that it isn’t sometimes just a matter of sleep habits or consistency, but my advice is that it can’t hurt to speak with a doctor about your symptoms if you have the chance. :)
Well it can also be the case that I just have a very good dream memory, but I noticed that I can relatively easaly drift into a dream while being aware of my environment even when I was fully awake before. Not always though.
I also can remember having 4-10 dreams in a night. Of cause we don’t only dream in the REM sleep so it’s kinda hard to keep track of how much I actually sleep.
I probably just have a pretty good dream memory and have a very light sleep
Do you snore?
Depends, I have allergies and during peak allergy times for me I usually get very congested. So during the yes, I found something this season that help clear my sinuses really well and ended up getting some pretty good sleep. And then other factors of course, such as if I’ve drank or yadda yadda
We’re the cool kids.
Yes, I am hip…
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Clearly we need to be eating 100% chocolate to get 100% energy.
make it dark chocolate if you’re looking for dark energy. checkmate physicist
think that’s called baker’s chocolate
Can’t tell you the amount of times someone has acted astonished when I tell them I drink coffee because I genuinely like it—i just drink it in the morning because if I drank it later it’d keep me awake.
A lot of people drink it purely to stay awake and I do not get that. Get some caffeine pills or something.
I don’t take pills unless I get them from a vetted dealer.
Have you considered decaf?
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Maybe they drink shitty coffee? A good coffee tastes great
There are disadvantages to caffeine pills:
- it’s a pill and feels more medical and unnatural than drinking a bean soup
- it’s easy to accidentally overdose and cause serious damage to yourself
Wait, what’s this about 90% chocolate? I like chocolate.
Dark chocolate has some caffeine, but if you’re used to coffee don’t expect it to do much. 90% at least if you want any effect. I just enjoy it for the cocoa, never really notice the caffeine bc I’m used to a big rush from coffee.
Its the bitter that wakes in this case.
But maybe not 90%, it’s super bitter
I mean it’s not milk chocolate, but it’s tasty enough on its own. Really good if eaten with a cup of coffee.
It’s not like as bitter as the “Baker’s Chocolate” that you found in your aunt’s cupboard.
The most I can handle is about 70%. Even 80% tastes too bitter. But maybe I am too weak
I’m with you there. I love chocolate and am not really a fan of milk chocolate, but anything over 70-75% gets too bitter for me.
White “chocolate” is just blasphemy. Lol
Nah it’s just a matter of taste.
It’s bitter
Sounds like an Awake Bar maybe?
Come on op, what’s the other 10%??
Cocaine it’s always cocaine.
Sugar
There aren’t enough hours of sleep for me to go to uni for 8 hours, then go to work for 8 hours and not feel like a mess.
I sleep like 10 hours a day and I am still tired
I feel scammed
Oversleeping can also cause tiredness
If you’re serious, go talk to a doctor. There’s a good chance you have sleep apnea.
Have a light automatically turn on after approximately 9 hours. Waking up from gradual light is much better than waking up from sound.
I don’t have an alarm
I never said I had an alarm
Then you might be oversleeping instead
I see teenagers drinking energy drinks and I’m always thinking marketing really works on teenagers. Because those are the only people drinking that shit and they are also trying to appear “cool”. So easy targets for marketing.
I always drunk energy drinks bc of their unique taste that I liked at the moment. Never seen ads that were saying “energy drinks are cool” tho.
You never see ads saying “beer is cool” either. They just imply it heavily. Same with energy drinks.
In the US, that’s actually because of semi-voluntary regulations. In the EU and other areas, it’s less voluntary.
They can’t claim or imply that drinking will help improve your social status or sexual success. They also can’t claim or imply that it’ll help you relax or that the alcohol is a positive quality.
Basically, they’re not allowed to show someone drinking and looking like they’re having a good time… But they’re allowed to show one or the other.
Look at Monsters advertising :)
I used to order caffeine free Bang, then I realized my gut was doing backflips because of the sweetener.
I prefer a sugar free red bull to wake up first thing in the morning instead of coffee and I haven’t been a teenager for over a decade. It works better for me and tastes better. Its all just preference.
Number 4 is unfair. It’s not for lack of trying…
Have you tried not trying?
If only sleep made me rested
That’s why I no longer sleep
man, i wish
buddy i get like 10+ hours of sleep, it does jack shit.
Oversleeping can cause fatigue as well
yeah but how do i get out of bed when it physically hurts to even think about moving my pinky finger in the morning? i have to sleep like 10 hours for that to go away.
That sounds like another issue that I am unqualified to diagnose, you might want to speak to a qualified doctor about that.
How about we stop pretending that “well rested” actually exist?
Sleep apnea? Or possibly just too much sleep
Do you need a multivitamin? B complex? Helped me
i mean i doubt it since my diet is very varied and contains a lot of both meat and veggies, but i guess i might as well try it.
Maybe schedule an annual checkup and have them do some bloodwork. You never know but it helps to catch things sooner
have had bloodwork and basic heart/breath check done as part of another investigation and i’m like exactly in the middle of the range of healthy values.
Do you exercise regularly? Some light cardio in the morning really helps me throught the day.
i guess i’ll have to try forcing myself to do that, problem is that it takes me hours for the bone-deep lethargy to bleed away, and before that i can only just about haul myself into my computer chair
Yea i know that feeling its tough to push past forsure, if i ever find a way past that ill let you know lol
There is another way, yet is a pathway to abilities some consider to be unnatural…
Are you a sniff lord?
This is mostly accurate. (Except for the fact that coffee and energy drinks need to be switched.) I only need to drink coffee in the morning if I can’t sleep properly. On a regular day, I only drink some in the afternoon, and thats too only because I just like drinking coffee.
I contemplated the order a little but then decided to focus on the punchline
Where does staying awake by willpower fall?
Did not fit into the picture, way-way down
I will never understand people who think that energy drinks are better than black coffee…
I don’t like the taste of coffee so I’d prefer energy drinks.
I don’t do energy drinks, but sometimes I need something sweet like Coke or some chocolate, over acidic coffee.
Coffee has no calories. Red Bull is full of sugar which is actual energy.
I love coffee, but sometimes sugar is more effective than just caffeine
It all depends on the time you consume it.
Caffeine fills the receptors in your brain that adenosine would fill, and that when filled naturally it tells your brain that you have been awake for a while and need to sleep. So caffeine really helps to prevent feeling tired.
(A side note, but I think that it is so damn cool how that works: ATP, adenosine triphosphate, is processed releasing the “phosphate” part to be use in the energy cycle and the adenosine that is left over is kinda used like a record of how much energy you’ve processed, so after a while of processing energy you naturally have a way of saying “I should rest now.” Caffeine blocks that from happening for a while.)
Sugar eventually is processed as glucose which is just straight up energy for your brain, so that helps when you’re already tired and need a kick in the pants.
I’m just a nerd for science so I might have some of the details messed up, but from what I remember this is kinda how it all works.
I had skipped black coffee and moved temporarily to energy drinks during hot days. Not too bad, but yeah nothing beats black coffee.
I love black coffee. Why not try a cold brew coffee? Making a batch in the fridge for 48 hours can make it really strong!
Its 2 different things, one is a sugar rush the other one is caffeine. You could argue you could use them for the same goals but the calories you get from energy drinks are way more.
If you need to run for miles, better the energy drink, if you need to drive, better the caffeine
There’s no such thing as a sugar rush, it’s a myth. Energy drinks do contain caffeine in arguably lower quantities.
Yeah i wrongly worded it. Maybe is better to say “if you need energy or if you simply needs to say awake”
99% of the energy drinks I drink are sugar free and contains like 3 cal a serving lol
Well, that’s you
Well than it’s not “energy” you are getting
Never in my life have I experienced sugar rush. Always thought it was a myth, until my partner told me about the kids in her class. Apparently it’s real
